Today, 60% of users regularly use the Internet for banking and buying online. Unfortunately, the explosion in online payments has been accompanied by an equally rapid surge in Internet fraud. There exist various methods of swindling people out of their cash, but perhaps the most common technique employed by fraudsters is to trick the online payment system into believing that they are the real account owner. Once that is accomplished, the imposters can perform any transactions they please with the victim’s funds.
Matousec.com has designed and performed a comparative testing based on the assignment of Kaspersky Lab ZAO. The tests assessed how effectively a range of security solutions dealt with attempts to steal banking data during online transactions.
In all, 14 security products have been tested against 15 different techniques that can be used by financial malware to steal credentials to online payment systems. Only four products were able to prevent theft in at least one third of the tested scenarios. Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 and avast! Internet Security were able to block about a half of the tested techniques. Kaspersky Internet Security 2013, with its Safe Money technology, was the most effective solution. Only the dedicated solution from Trusteer demonstrated a comparable result.Read more...
